Saw on another site, made me cringe! Incest.

So, on another website, a user posted a topic about incest. He stated that he had a friend who regularly had sex with his sister and said it was consensual. This user was trying to state that incest is fine so long as both parties are willing. What shocked me was that people were chiming in supporting this notion.

I'm sorry but whether or not the two involved are consenting I can't see any justification for sleeping with a close family member, or even a not-so-close one. For me its one of those things that is just wrong no matter how you look at it or what kind of spin you try to put on it.

I used to think my step brother was hot, then I realized he was an asshole. My mama married his dad when I was 13 and he was 16. He used to stand up for me in high school "thats my sister you leave her be" So I was cool because I had this stepbrother everyone liked and thought was hot, but in the last few years hes gotten.... weird leading to the asshole thing. Here lemme find a nice picture of him...

The thing people are forgetting about VC Andrews' stories is that the incest in her books was always taboo, and viewed by everyone other than the characters it was happening to as being very wrong.

In Clueless it was a case where the kids were, I think, about 10 and 13 when the parents got married and then it was only for a short time. There was never a brother/sister relationship there. Heck, even the scary-laywer dad in the story didn't have a problem with it. ;)

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"Think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize, half of them are stupider than that..." - George Carlin

Yeah, I couldn't care less if someone is in an incestuous relationship. I do not think it is 'wrong' either. Gross to me personally? Yes. Would I be horrified if I found out my kids were sleeping with each other? Oh yeah. But for something to be "wrong" to me, there has to be a victim. If they are both consenting and mentally stable adults, I see no victims here.

And before anyone says "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHILDREN?!" all I have to say to that is there are a lot of people who are carriers for different genetic diseases, or have HIV, or are over the age of 35 that also have an increased risk of having handicapped children. And I don't feel comfortable telling them they shouldn't have the right to procreate either.

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"God save us from half the people who think they're doing God's work." - Dean Winchester